Goniapora polyps gone overnite...

[Terryz_]

I just now realised my gonipora coral have one big botak part... I find it very weird.. It was blooming fine yesterday... Today got a botak part... I also have a few small frags of the gonia... also disappear without a trace... after a few day found them only left with the skeleton... is something eating them or are they just dying... thkz..

[Tanzy]

Your gonio is tired of this world and hopped on the last bus to Valinor. Something is eating your corals. Do you have any shrimps?

[Terryz_]

No shrimps... Got zebra hermit(from ML)... are they eating it...

[Tanzy]

I doubt it. It's inevitable that the goniopora will die anyway. Usually not so fast though.

[Terryz_]

Haiz... keep it for quite some time liao...

[Morgan]

weeks...months...years???

[clowntrigger]

welcome to the club, my red goniopora is seeing the same fate as you. I have been keeping it for 7 months plus and recently, it is shrinking....what a waste.... we should leave it in the sea...

[dradttg]

I have two that are going botak as well.

My Golden Strip Maroon Clown has been helping to speed up the process by rubbing against it.

[Terryz_]

hate to see it go to waste... having been keeping for 6 months liao.. nothing happen till this morning... Become botak...

[chrislwp]

Disease. It's some white substance around the dying part right.

[Terryz_]

No white substance... But i see some of the polyps on the seabed... Like droppping off the skeleton...

[Achilles Tang]

Are the polyps on a round ball like skeleton? If it is, its budding somehow.

[Terryz_]

Most of those buds have drop off liao... Like small gonia but they also disappeared and become botak... The polyps that is on the sandbed is soft soft one...

[FuEl]

Sounds like brown jelly disease or some sort of bacterial infection.

[bwilly]

not easy to keep.

I swear off it..

I got three botak balls.. when I want a hard onz..

I go squeeze them.. ! yeah.. its damn hard.

[jd_n]

Could be polyp bail-out or coral polyp expulsion.

Bascially the living polyps eject themselves from their skeleton to drift in the current, ideally findin a suitable settlin place where they can attach and begin to calcify a new skeleton. Bail-outs are almost seen in response to stress. This type of reaction is likely used as a last-ditch attempt for survival rather than a valid form of asexual reproduction under normal behaviour. The latter is where the individual polyps, along with the calices, detach and lift out of the colony skeleton. Although this resembles polyp bail-out, they are ejectin from otherwise healthy colonies. Both behaviors seem to be triggered by physcial disturbance and stress so mayb somethin is stressin out ur corals.....